The Caprock - Barndominium House Plan
Three overhead doors on one gable end, a proper house behind them.
Front elevation (South): the 46 foot front porch and three cupolas.
Exterior renders show the steel version of this plan; the wood-framed set's windows and doors are as drawn on its own elevations.
From the road, a house; from the drive, three overhead doors on one gable end. The Caprock is a single-story 3-bedroom, 2-bath barndominium, about 2,300 square feet on a 40×90 footprint: a vaulted living and dining room with an open kitchen, a walk-in pantry, an office, a mud room, and porches front and back. The shop and 2-car garage share one open bay, no wall between them. Roll the doors down and the rest is home.
The Floor Plan
Key Features
- A 30′ × 14′ shop open to a 30′ × 26′ garage, one work bay with transom windows (short windows set high in the wall) on the front and back walls
- Three 10 foot wide overhead doors on the west gable end (the end wall, under the peak of the roof), two into the garage and one, 10 feet tall, into the shop
- A mud room between the garage and the house under a tubular skylight, with a storage room beside it and the laundry off the same hallway
- A vaulted 29′ × 24′ living and dining room with twin windows on the front wall, open to a 22′ × 16′ kitchen with a sliding door onto the rear porch
- A 7′ × 9′ walk-in pantry behind a barn door (a door that slides on a track outside the wall)
- A master suite on the east end wall, vaulted, with its own bath and a 6′ × 16′ walk-in closet
- A 14′ × 9′ office off the foyer, windows on two walls, a closet of its own
- Two more bedrooms off the hall, one at each end: Bedroom 2 at 12′ × 11′ with a twin window, Bedroom 3 at 17′ × 11′ with two windows on the front wall, each with a closet
- Five tubular skylights pulling daylight into the hallway, hall bath, storage room, mud room and foyer
- Porches front and back, 46 feet each, 736 square feet in all
- Three cupolas on a 5:12 gable roof, over a 12 foot eave at the house
Is This Plan Right for You?
A great fit if you want
- a 30′ × 14′ shop open to a 30′ × 26′ garage, one work bay with three 10 foot overhead doors on the gable end
- a mud room between the garage and the house, so the day comes off at the door and not in the kitchen
- a vaulted 29′ × 24′ living and dining room with the kitchen open to it and a foyer at the front door
- a master suite on the end wall with its own bath and a 6′ × 16′ walk-in closet, and a 14′ × 9′ office off the foyer
- porches front and back, 46 feet each
View our other plans if you need
- a bigger shop: see our other plans with a shop The Hearth
- bedrooms clear of the shop: here Bedroom 2 shares a wall with the shop and Bedroom 3 with the garage The Brazos
- a shorter building: this one runs 90 feet long Barndominium Plans
Tour The Caprock
The Heart of the Home
Cross the foyer from the front door into the 29′ × 24′ living and dining room, vaulted. The 22′ × 16′ kitchen opens across its back with no door between, vaulted too, a sliding door onto the rear porch and the walk-in pantry behind a barn door. Whoever is cooking sees who comes in through the foyer.
The Shop
Roll in under three overhead doors on the west gable end: two into the 30′ × 26′ garage and a third, 10 feet tall, into the 30′ × 14′ shop behind it. Garage and shop are one open bay across a dashed line, not a wall. Whoever has a project going leaves it out and still parks both cars.
The Master Suite
At the east end the 14′ × 15′ master bedroom opens off the living room, vaulted, a twin window on the end wall. Its own bath opens off it, and beside the bath, with its own door from the bedroom, a 6′ × 16′ walk-in closet. Whoever sleeps here shares no wall with another bedroom.
Work & Service
Step in from the garage into the 12′ × 5′ mud room under a tubular skylight and into the hallway. The storage room is beside the mud room, the laundry down the hall behind a barn door. The 14′ × 9′ office opens off the foyer, windows on two walls. The office takes the paperwork, the mud room the boots.
Outdoor Living
Step out the front door onto the 8′ × 46′ front porch, deep enough for a table, running along the front from the garage to the foyer. The matching porch runs along the back from the shop to the kitchen, under the kitchen's sliding door: 736 square feet under cover. Whoever breaks for lunch eats it on the front porch.
Plan Specifications
Square footage
| Conditioned living area | 2,268 sq ft (heated and cooled space; the garage, shop and porches are counted separately) |
|---|---|
| Shop | 384 sq ft |
| Garage | 734 sq ft |
| Covered porches (front 368 sq ft + rear 368 sq ft) | 736 sq ft |
| Total under roof | 4,122 sq ft |
Building
| Span × length | 40′ × 90′ (40 ft clear span, 90 ft long) |
|---|---|
| Eave height | 12′ over the house (where the roof meets the wall) |
| Ridge height | 20′-4″ over the house |
| Roof | Gable, 5:12 (5 inches of rise per foot) |
| Stories | 1 |
| Ceiling height (flat areas) | 9′-0″ |
| Vaulted ceilings | Master Bedroom, Kitchen, Living / Dining |
Construction
| System | Designed for standard pre-engineered metal building (PEMB) construction |
|---|---|
| Eave height over the garage and shop | 14′, a 2 foot step up from the house; the ridge over the shop end is 22′-4″ |
| Interior walls | 4-1/2 in thick (2x4 framed) |
| Foundation | Not included; designed by your local structural engineer for your site, using the anchor bolt plan and loads from your building supplier |
Openings
| Doors | 22 (two 10′ × 8′ overhead on the garage, one 10′ × 10′ overhead on the shop, one entry, one patio sliding door, one fire-rated, self-closing door from the garage into the mud room, and sixteen interior doors, two of them barn doors, four sliding closet doors and one bi-fold) |
|---|---|
| Windows | 17 (each bedroom has an egress window, big enough to climb out of in an emergency) |
| Skylights | 5 tubular (a small roof dome that pipes daylight down a reflective tube), in the hallway, hall bath, storage room, mud room and foyer |
Rooms
| Master bedroom | 14′ × 15′ |
|---|---|
| Bedroom 2 | 12′ × 11′ |
| Bedroom 3 | 17′ × 11′ |
| Living / dining | 29′ × 24′ |
| Kitchen | 22′ × 16′ |
| Master bath | 8′ × 16′ |
| Hall bath | 12′ × 7′ |
| Walk-in closet | 6′ × 16′ |
| Pantry | 7′ × 9′ |
| Office | 14′ × 9′ |
| Foyer | 8′ × 7′ |
| Hallway | 5′ wide (4′-7½″ clear) |
Room sizes here are before the outside wall is taken off. The floor plans print finished sizes, a little smaller along an outside wall, and the presentation floor plan notes any corner a room gives up to a closet or a notch.
Service & extras
| Shop | 30′ × 14′, one 10′ × 10′ overhead door, open to the garage |
|---|---|
| 2-car garage | 30′ × 26′, two 10′ × 8′ overhead doors |
| Mud room | 12′ × 5′ |
| Laundry | 7′ × 7′ |
| Storage (off the hallway) | 7′ × 6′ |
| Mechanical (off the garage) | 5′ × 6′ |
| Cupolas | 3 (36 in, louvered) |
| Front porch | 8′ × 46′ |
| Rear porch | 8′ × 46′ |
Square footage
| Conditioned living area | 2,307 sq ft (heated and cooled space; the garage, shop and porches are counted separately) |
|---|---|
| Shop | 395 sq ft |
| Garage | 748 sq ft |
| Covered porches (front 368 sq ft + rear 368 sq ft) | 736 sq ft |
| Total under roof | 4,186 sq ft |
Building
| Span × length | 40′ × 90′ (40 ft clear span, 90 ft long) |
|---|---|
| Eave height | 12′ (where the roof meets the wall) |
| Ridge height | 20′-4″ |
| Roof | Gable, 5:12 (5 inches of rise per foot) |
| Stories | 1 |
| Ceiling height (flat areas) | 9′-0″ |
| Vaulted ceilings | Master Bedroom, Kitchen, Living / Dining |
Construction
| System | Designed for standard wood-frame construction |
|---|---|
| Exterior walls | 2×6 studs with continuous sheathing and braced wall panels, shown on the detail floor plan |
| Interior walls | 4-1/2 in thick (2x4 framed) |
| Foundation | Not included; designed by your local structural engineer for your site |
Openings
| Doors | 24 |
|---|---|
| Windows | 17 (each bedroom has an egress window, big enough to climb out of in an emergency) |
| Skylights | 5 tubular (a small roof dome that pipes daylight down a reflective tube), in the hallway, hall bath, storage room, mud room and foyer |
Rooms
| Master bedroom | 14′ × 15′ |
|---|---|
| Bedroom 2 | 12′ × 11′ |
| Bedroom 3 | 17′ × 11′ |
| Living / dining | 29′ × 24′ |
| Kitchen | 22′ × 16′ |
| Master bath | 8′ × 16′ |
| Hall bath | 12′ × 7′ |
| Walk-in closet | 6′ × 16′ |
| Pantry | 7′ × 9′ |
| Office | 14′ × 9′ |
| Foyer | 8′ × 7′ |
| Hallway | 5′ wide (4′-7½″ clear) |
Room sizes here are before the outside wall is taken off. The floor plans print finished sizes, a little smaller along an outside wall, and the presentation floor plan notes any corner a room gives up to a closet or a notch.
Service & extras
| Shop | 30′ × 14′, one 10′ × 10′ overhead door, open to the garage |
|---|---|
| 2-car garage | 30′ × 26′, two 10′ × 8′ overhead doors |
| Mud room | 12′ × 5′ |
| Laundry | 7′ × 7′ |
| Storage (off the hallway) | 7′ × 6′ |
| Mechanical (off the garage) | 5′ × 6′ |
| Cupolas | 3 (36 in, louvered) |
| Front porch | 8′ × 46′ |
| Rear porch | 8′ × 46′ |
Included in This Plan Set
The Design Plan Set is eight pages in one PDF, sized to print at 24 × 36 inches (ARCH D). It is the set you send out for quotes and estimates; each page is listed below. One home, one license.
Included Pages
- A-001Cover sheet and legend
- A-100Presentation floor plan
- A-101Detail floor plan
- A-102Schedules
- A-111Roof plan
- A-201Exterior elevations
- A-202Exterior elevations
- L-001License and terms
Not included, handled by local professionals
- Foundation design: by your local structural engineer for your site, using the anchor bolt plan and loads from your building supplier
- Engineering drawings for the structure (provided by your chosen supplier)
- Plumbing, electrical and HVAC layouts, by your local trades to local code
The Design Plan Set is eight pages, delivered as a single PDF sized to print at ARCH D (24 × 36 in). It carries the detail a framing contractor and a truss manufacturer need to quote this exact home, enough for local contractors to price the slab foundation and the interior fit-out, and enough to take a real number to your lender.
Included Pages
- A-001Cover sheet and legend
- A-100Presentation floor plan
- A-101Detail floor plan
- A-102Schedules
- A-111Roof plan
- A-201Exterior elevations
- A-202Exterior elevations
- L-001License and terms
Not included, handled by local professionals
- Foundation design: by your local structural engineer for your site
- Roof truss engineering: the sealed truss drawings and layout from your truss manufacturer
- Plumbing, electrical and HVAC layouts, by your local trades to local code
Can I Build This?
Yes: every page is designed for standard pre-engineered metal building (PEMB) construction. Stamped structural drawings come from your building supplier's engineer, and permit review is with your local building department.
Why a pre-engineered metal building?
A PEMB encloses more home for the money than a wood-framed building and goes up in weeks. Its steel frames carry the roof, so no inside wall has to hold it up: the living room, kitchen and master bedroom can be vaulted, and the shop end steps up to a 14 foot eave. The frame layout on these pages follows standard metal building practice, so a supplier can quote it as drawn.
Who does what
We design the home: the rooms, where the doors and windows go, the elevations and the roof. Your building supplier engineers the steel frame for your site and confirms the vaulted ceilings against it. That is the usual split on a metal building project, and our pages are drawn to it.
Yes: every page is designed for standard wood-frame construction. The sealed truss drawings come from your truss manufacturer's engineer, the foundation design from your local structural engineer, and permit review is with your local building department.
Why wood framing?
A 2×6 wood frame is the construction framing crews work in and lumber yards stock, with a deeper wall cavity for insulation than a 2×4 wall. The roof is carried on trusses, engineered by your truss manufacturer for the spans these pages draw, and the kitchen, living room and master bedroom are designed with vaulted ceilings that follow the roof trusses. The braced wall panels on these pages follow the US building code's standard method; the header framing comes with the construction plan set, and any beam too large for the code's tables is marked there for an engineer to size.
Who does what
We design the home: the rooms, where the doors and windows go, the elevations and the roof, and the braced wall panels the US building code asks for. Your chosen truss manufacturer's engineer designs the trusses: the sealed truss drawings and layout for your exact roof, and they confirm the vaulted ceilings against the trusses they supply. Your local structural engineer designs the foundation, including any thickened footings under interior bearing walls. That is the usual split on a wood-framed project, and our pages are drawn to it.
What Will It Cost to Build?
$440,000 to $490,000
A home like The Caprock is estimated to complete for $440,000 to $490,000 with you as your own general contractor, hiring the trades yourself. That covers the steel building and putting it up, the foundation, the inside finish, and an allowance for site work, utilities, driveway and septic.
It leaves out land, financing, sales tax, payroll taxes and insurance on labor, appliances beyond a standard allowance, landscaping and window coverings. Hiring a general contractor adds about 15 percent.
This is a rough estimate, not a quote. Costs vary by region by 15 to 25 percent, and your building supplier and local contractors will price it for your area. Our barndominium buying guide walks through what moves the number.
$530,000 to $580,000
A home like The Caprock is estimated to complete for $530,000 to $580,000 with the owner acting as general contractor, including framing materials and labor, roof trusses, metal roofing and wall panels, the foundation, interior finish, and an allowance for site work, utilities, driveway and septic.
It excludes land, financing, sales tax, labor burden, appliances beyond a standard allowance, landscaping and window coverings, and hiring a general contractor typically adds about 15 percent.
This is a rough estimate, not a quote: costs vary by region by 15 to 25 percent, and your framing contractor and local trades will price for your chosen building location. Our barndominium buying guide walks through what moves the number.
Frequently Asked Questions
How big is the shop, really?
30′ × 14′, open to the 30′ × 26′ garage: one bay at the west end, 40 feet across the door wall and 30 feet deep. Three 10 foot wide overhead doors sit on that gable end, two 8 feet tall into the garage and one 10 feet tall into the shop. The house connects through the mud room.
Is the house half a real house?
Three bedrooms, two baths and an office. The living and dining room is 29′ × 24′ and vaulted; the kitchen is 22′ × 16′ with a sliding door onto the rear porch and a walk-in pantry. The master suite has its own bath and a 6′ × 16′ walk-in closet. Porches run 46 feet front and back.
Which rooms sit on the shop wall?
Bedroom 2 shares its west wall with the shop and Bedroom 3 shares its west wall with the garage; the hall bath, the mechanical room and the mud room sit between them on that same wall. The living room, kitchen, office and master suite are on the house side of the hallway and touch neither.
Can I build The Caprock with any metal building supplier?
Yes. Every page is designed for standard pre-engineered metal building (PEMB) construction, so any steel building supplier can quote this home as drawn. Their engineer then provides the stamped engineering drawings for the steel building, along with an anchor bolt plan and the loads for your site, and your local structural engineer designs the foundation from them.
Is the plan stamped, engineered, or permit-ready?
No. No plan set is a permit. This design set is for quotes, budgeting, and financing; permit review comes later, on a construction plan set (ours is launching soon) with the engineering your building department requires. The Caprock is designed and informed by the IRC (USA) and NBC Part 9 (Canada). Local permit review is between you, your builder and your building department.
Is a steel barndominium a good choice in a wildfire zone?
Yes, with the rest done right. The steel frame and the metal wall and roof panels do not burn, the kind of construction wildfire rules favor. A metal roof also carries the top fire rating, Class A. Ember-resistant vents, boxed eaves, tempered windows and cleared ground around the house decide the rest. No home is fireproof.
How big is the shop, really?
30′ × 14′, open to the 30′ × 26′ garage: one bay at the west end, 40 feet across the door wall and 30 feet deep. Three 10 foot wide overhead doors sit on that gable end, two 8 feet tall into the garage and one 10 feet tall into the shop. The house connects through the mud room.
Is the house half a real house?
Three bedrooms, two baths and an office. The living and dining room is 29′ × 24′ and vaulted; the kitchen is 22′ × 16′ with a sliding door onto the rear porch and a walk-in pantry. The master suite has its own bath and a 6′ × 16′ walk-in closet. Porches run 46 feet front and back.
Which rooms sit on the shop wall?
Bedroom 2 shares its west wall with the shop and Bedroom 3 shares its west wall with the garage; the hall bath, the mechanical room and the mud room sit between them on that same wall. The living room, kitchen, office and master suite are on the house side of the hallway and touch neither.
Can I build The Caprock with any framing contractor?
Yes. Every page is designed for standard wood-frame construction: 2×6 exterior walls with continuous sheathing, braced wall panels drawn to the US building code's standard method, and roof trusses. A framing contractor and a truss manufacturer can quote the home from this set; the sealed truss drawings and layout come from the truss manufacturer's engineer when you order with the construction plan set, and your local structural engineer designs the foundation for your site from that set and the loads from your truss manufacturer.
Is the plan stamped, engineered, or permit-ready?
No. No plan set is a permit. This design set is for quotes, budgeting, and financing; permit review comes later, on a construction plan set (ours is launching soon) with the engineering your building department requires. The Caprock is designed and informed by the IRC (USA) and NBC Part 9 (Canada). The sealed truss drawings come from your truss manufacturer's engineer, the foundation design from your local structural engineer, and local permit review is between you, your builder and your building department.
Is a wood-framed barndominium a good choice in a wildfire zone?
It can be. The metal roof and metal wall panels help with the exterior rules wildfire codes set, and the wood framing behind them stays protected only while that skin holds. Ember-resistant vents, boxed eaves, tempered windows and cleared ground around the house decide the rest; ask your insurer how they rate a wood frame under metal.
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